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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...have vowed to stop the new vanguard from scoring big at the ballot box. With his own popularity in free fall, analysts say Roh could wind up leading a minority party, his presidency paralyzed by a conservative opposition and a vengeful MDP. "He could remain as a lame-duck President," says Ahn Chung Si, a political scientist at Seoul National University. "If that doesn't work out, he may have to step down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crisis of Confidence | 10/13/2003 | See Source »

...able to--not Michael Jordan, not Willie Mays, not Elvis, not Woody Allen--is Larson's yin-yang combination of a slight ego and a massive self-awareness. He doesn't need to be idolized, but he doesn't want to be thought of as lame. After 2002, Larson stopped making his No. 1-selling boxed calendar, which was, essentially, a legal way to print money. "I couldn't understand why it was still doing well. I think it's one of those things that would dissolve into a joke itself: it's back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life Beyond The Far Side | 10/6/2003 | See Source »

...about his ability to make executive decisions for the church. Resignation is not being considered, according to a senior Vatican official. But, in the words of a Rome-based priest who has worked in Vatican circles for more than a decade, "on some levels, this has effectively become a lame-duck papacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope's Decline: A Lame Duck In Rome? | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

...enough of lame inflight entertainment? The AV340 video and music player from French firm Archos might just be the answer to mile-high boredom. Its 40-GB hard disk can easily store 30 feature films to watch on its 9.7-cm color screen, and still leave room for a few thousand MP3 tracks. All this in a package that weighs just 0.35 kg. The Archos ($1,000) can record straight from TV or hi-fi, so you don't have to waste time compressing audio and video files on your computer. And when you land, you can hook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entertainment in Your Pocket | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

...addition to losing Dawson for the game, junior wide receiver Rodney Byrnes fell victim to the a sprained left ankle midway through the third quarter, coming up lame after a 27-yard kickoff return...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson 'O' Red Hot in the Red Zone | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

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